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Sonata for Flute and Piano (2005) was
written for and is dedicated to flutist Brook Ferguson. It is in two
movements. It was inspired by her support and activity with contemporary
music. The work is also dedicated in memory of composer Meyer Kupferman
(1926-2003), with whose music the composer was spending a great deal
of time during the composition of this sonata.

The first movement, Chanson, is an extended
"song" that develops through a variety of textures. The opening song
material is centered around G#. In turn, this G# is revealed to be
a quasi-dominant of a D centered sonority. (A brief coda returns to
G#, in preparation for the D center of the second movement.)

The second movement, Fantasy Variations,
is cast as two presentations of the theme surrounding five free variations,
plus a coda. The theme serves as the basis of the musical material
for each variation as well as the structural template for each. Also,
each variation contains material referring back specifically to the
previous variation.

The opening theme is declamatory and
massive. The first variation is fast and limber. The second variation
is introspective and stratified. The third variation is fleeting.
The fourth variation is distant and spare. The fifth variation is
fast and driving. The final theme begins whispered and slowly regains
its declamatory nature before an intensely hammered coda ends the
work in a blaze.